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Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England

In this chapter, I discuss part of an in-depth empirical study that I carried out for my doctoral research, which aimed to understand how Malaysian undergraduates in an English university experienced reading. In my study, I contrasted these undergraduates� perspectives on their past contexts in sc...

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Main Author: Chong, S.L.
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Published: Taylor and Francis 2018
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spelling my.utp.eprints.212712019-02-26T03:18:39Z Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England Chong, S.L. In this chapter, I discuss part of an in-depth empirical study that I carried out for my doctoral research, which aimed to understand how Malaysian undergraduates in an English university experienced reading. In my study, I contrasted these undergraduates� perspectives on their past contexts in school with current contexts in the university to show up complex relationships of what it means to read. My 167exploration of this complexity showed how the reading experience, when seen through the reader�s eyes, can contradict and challenge conventional wisdom of what it means to read for pleasure, for functional purposes or under pressure. My study also offers empirical evidence showing how even within boundaries of reading genres and formal spaces, the reader is fundamentally his or her own agent of change. Therefore, if research helps us to see reading experiences as more fluid than hitherto, it also means we need to expand our conception of literacy. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Evelyn Arizpe and Gabrielle Cliff Hodges; individual chapters, the contributors. Taylor and Francis 2018 Book NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85050050391&doi=10.4324%2f9781315265216&partnerID=40&md5=d839b6fb64804ec8f612a4333a4206d6 Chong, S.L. (2018) Pressure, pleasure and function: Malaysian undergraduates reading across boundaries in a university in England. Taylor and Francis, pp. 166-180. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/21271/
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description In this chapter, I discuss part of an in-depth empirical study that I carried out for my doctoral research, which aimed to understand how Malaysian undergraduates in an English university experienced reading. In my study, I contrasted these undergraduates� perspectives on their past contexts in school with current contexts in the university to show up complex relationships of what it means to read. My 167exploration of this complexity showed how the reading experience, when seen through the reader�s eyes, can contradict and challenge conventional wisdom of what it means to read for pleasure, for functional purposes or under pressure. My study also offers empirical evidence showing how even within boundaries of reading genres and formal spaces, the reader is fundamentally his or her own agent of change. Therefore, if research helps us to see reading experiences as more fluid than hitherto, it also means we need to expand our conception of literacy. © 2018 selection and editorial matter, Evelyn Arizpe and Gabrielle Cliff Hodges; individual chapters, the contributors.
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